Friday, 7/25 8pm

STORMIN' NORMAN & SUZY

"Vaudeville blues, torch boogie, and funky jazz rag... Stormin' Norman and Suzy are exceptionally original, exceptionally good and just about the hottest act in town...Williams' energy must be seen to be believed...a natural performer."
- Robert Palmer, New York Times

Visit: http://www.zamcheck.com/ and http://www.puddingbench.com/suzy.htm

Admission: $15 at the door

For more info, contact: pfsuzy@aol.com or zamcheck@aol.com

Stormin' Norman Zamcheck and Suzy Williams reunited in 2005, originally gaining fame with their unique rag'n'roll music in the 70's. They played Carnegie Hall and performed with Moses Pendleton's Pilobolus dance troupe. Bette Midler, Odetta, Roosevelt Sykes, Eubie Blake and Nicholas Ray have praised their passionate music and vibrant energy.

"Suzy, whose voice is vibrant and lusty, fills the grooves with great gusto on stompers, and with bold emotions on blues and ballads, Norman plays rolling modern barrelhouse piano and writes the large-spirited songs...post-graduate vaudevillians"
- Nat Hentoff

"Williams is an enormously amusing, endearing presence...with tough, belting authority." - John Rockwell, NY Times
"Suzy Williams is a very talented singer with a wide range who knows how to put on an entertaining and witty show. She can sing anything from 1920's jazz and swing to blues, rock & roll and folk music. Williams' highly expressive vocals are always worth hearing."
- Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene, April '07

Norman Zamcheck was the pipe-smoking piano-banging composer/leader of the band “Stormin’ Norman & Suzy, acclaimed from the mid-seventies through the early 90’s for their unpredictable and explosive barrelhouse-rock shows. The group started in Boston, toured for years across the northeast, and moved to New York, where they soon gained national attention and major record deal. Norm also toured for nearly a decade with Andy Statman, celebrated master of bluegrass and Klezmer (traditional Jewish) music. Norm’s piano style is based on the sound of his masters: James P. Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Otis Spann, Mose Allison. His songwriting reflects his blues and boogie-woogie background (with some harmonic detours) along with rock and folk roots. He has written hundreds of songs over the course of his lifetime.